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Text Feature Creatures

Meet the Text Feature Creatures. There are mini posters and a booklet you can download to use in your lessons. Don't forget to sing the song!

Poetry

Meet the Text Feature Creatures!

 Teaching the text features is very important in all grades. Many times children will be able to recognize the various features, but don’t really understand how they are helpful to the reader. I have created The Text Feature Creatures to help your students learn the names and purposes of the text features.

You can start with singing the poem "Text Features" to the tune of "On Top of Ole Smokey." (See Below)

​I have included the poems for each text feature creature. You can download these as mini posters (below) to use in your lessons. There is also a mini booklet of these poems along with an illustration of each creature. Have the students cut out each page, stack them on top of one another with the cover of the creatures on top, and the poem (sung to the song On Top of Old Smokey) as the second page. Staple all of the pages together to create a mini booklet. On the back of each page, the students can find examples of each text feature from newspapers and magazines. They cut out each example and glue them on the back of each page. Click here to download the MINI BOOKLET.


Text Features
(Sung to the tune of “On Top of ole Smokey”)
 
Oh thank you text features
You’re helpful to us
We find information
With such little fuss.
 
With titles and headings
And words that stand out
And photos with captions
Telling what it’s about.
 
The table of contents
Is like a road map
It shows where the chapters
And that is all that
 
 
There are so many features
That help us to read
So use all these creatures
They’re just what you need.
 

-Beth Knoedelseder

Click on each image to download the mini posters for each Text Feature.

Picture
Diagram Duke & Levi Label
Diagram Duke and Levi Label make a great team.
Helping you to understand is their biggest dream.
Labels stick on diagrams as strong as tape and glue.
Diagrams show the parts of things
​                               That may be new to you.

Picture
Gladys Glossary
Gladys Glossary is a text feature friend.
She defines important words
Located near the book's end. 

Picture
Wordle Birds
​The Wordle Birds are helpful to know
They work as a trio and are able to show
The most important words throughout 
                                             the whole book.
                               They are Italics, Colored, and Bold,
                               Just take a close look.

Picture
Prunella Pictures & Captain Captions
Prunella Pictures & Captain Captions
Are best friends forever.
Captions explain what's in the picture
                                        As a team they work together.

Picture
Titus Title
Titus Title rules all of the creatures
He's one of the mightiest text features.
He states the main topic you're about to read.
Preview him first, and then proceed.
​

Picture
Idgy Index
Idgy Index helps you find information fast
Flip to the lists on the page
That's mostly likely last.

Picture
​Henrietta Heading
Henrietta Heading stands out in a crowd.
The main topic of a section
​Is what she screams out loud.

Picture
​Talula Table of Contents

​Talula Table of Contents lists the topics
             in the text
She helps you locate chapters of what's before
          and what comes next.

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